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Anushka who is currently busy with half a dozen films in Telugu and Tamil is ready to act in a 3D Malayalam Film. As per the latest news, director Vinayan approached Anuskha to act in his movie 'Dracula 2012', for which actress responded positively.

The film will be made in 3D format. The story of the film is inspired from a novel written by Bram Stoker. Director is planning to release the movie in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada languages simultaneously .

As Anushka is currently busy with 6 films, we need to wait and see whether the actress can materialise this offer by adjusting the dates.

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What is Cloud Storage?

The IT industry (manufacturers) sometimes gets ahead of itself. Timeand again it's guilty of introducing a technology, generating anenormous amount of discussion, and then moving on before the actualimplementors, (IT professionals) get a chance to really understand it.Cloud storage is one of these cases, where many IT professionals arestill asking "what is cloud storage and how should I use it?".

Cloud storage means different things to different people depending onhow it's implemented. The most common implementation is a 'publiccloud', which is essentially storage capacity accessed through theinternet or a wide area network (WAN) connection, and purchased on anas-needed basis. Users can expand capacity almost without limit, bycontacting the provider, which typically operates a highly scalablestorage infrastructure, sometimes in physically dispersed locations.

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This expansion ability drives a common expectation that cloudproviders have massive storage infrastructures. As a result most cloudstorage hardware and software systems developers have also focused onscalability and ease of management. A grid architecture is common,with storage being made up of clusters of individual servers or nodesthat are coupled together to present a single storage area or singlemanagement point.

This clustering can take two forms, either tightly coupled or looselycoupled. In tightly coupled clusters, identical, or very similar nodesare combined to form a single storage pool or file system withcentralized execution of storage functions. Loosely coupled clusters,on the other hand, can be largely dissimilar nodes coupled together bya global file system with storage functions being individuallyexecuted across the nodes. Each has their pros and cons and will bedetailed in an upcoming Storage Switzerland article.

The interface to the cloud storage is what the storage manager or theuser will see. This is typically some sort of appliance or softwareapplication that runs locally and then sends data to the cloud. It canbe as simple as presenting a file interface to the cloud storage area,meaning that it looks like a network mounted drive or it could beintegrated into a backup or archive application.

Cloud storage is a new distribution model, however, with the potentialfor economies of scale. Aside from cost, its benefits are outsourcedoperation, simple, unlimited growth and 'enterprise' features forsmaller users - like high availability, security, data protection,etc.

Finally, there is a lot of discussion about the second implementation,internal or 'private clouds'. This essentially is taking thecapabilities of a public storage cloud, like scalability and costeffectiveness, and bringing them to the large data center. The usecase could be to create a cloud storage-like service for theorganization that can be accessed from anywhere or it could be assimple as leveraging a cloud storage solution to build a highlyscalable, easy-to-use NAS.

With the infrastructure in place the next logical question is "whatare the best uses for this storage platform - archive, backup,collaboration?". This is something that we'll examine in the nextarticle.